The Honorable Jordan Gillis, assistant secretary of the Army for installations, energy and environment, visited Fort Polk ...
The Directorate of Emergency Services Fire Department held Aircraft Live Fire training Feb. 26-27. The training is an annual ...
FORT JOHNSON, La. - A U.S. Army base in western Louisiana was renamed Tuesday to honor Sgt. William Henry Johnson, a Black hero of World War I who received the Medal of Honor nearly a century later.
June 13 (UPI) --As part of an ongoing effort to cut ties with Confederate figures, Louisiana's Fort Polk was renamed Tuesday during a brief ceremony to honor a World War I soldier who served in the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson said active duty U.S. military men and women, including about 30,000 serving on ...
Two years ago, with flags, speeches and the clang of a hammer, Fort Polk became Fort Johnson, shedding its Confederate namesake and honoring a Black World War I hero. Now, in another ceremony this ...
Northwestern State University's ARGO Lab recently provided drone training to soldiers at Fort Polk, covering the basics of ...
The Army renamed a western Louisiana base Tuesday in an effort to shed its Confederate history — and instead uplift a black World War I hero. Fort Polk was rebranded as Fort Johnson in honor of ...
Last week, the U.S. Army did a good thing. But it just made a bad thing look even worse. In a low-wattage ceremony followed by a Facebook post, the brass at Fort Polk in west central Louisiana renamed ...
A U.S. military sergeant was registering his newlywed wife as a military spouse when ICE detained her. Here's what happened.